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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 as 'user' D
  • Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:01:44 +0000 (UTC)


I can download vector linux at the library except it is very complicated to get their O/S to recognize our USB flash drive, and involves going into WORD and it took the librarian 15 minutes to figure out. A simpler way is to shut down Windows and restart it with the flash drive inserted but the librarian at the local branch said that was forbidden (the main branch told us to do this), so I doubt we would be allowed to boot from the USB linux floppy boot disk either.


Back to another suggestion, using pbmtolj to print formatted text instead of Abiword/gs/lpr.

I found rtf2ps-1.0.tar.gz to convert Abiword rtf output to ps. It is based on the Ted wordprocessor, which we had for BL2. Is it still around? It was very slow and heavily mouse-based.

The only pstopnm or pstopbm I could find required gs (and probably lots of fonts).

xdpf has a pdftopbm that works in BL3 if you give it a minimal set of gs fonts (without gs itself) and a modified configuration file to point at these fonts.

I need a pstopdf that is not gs-based, or a wordprocessor that outputs ps or pdf.

I found TextMaker for Linux 2002, free for linux, 14MB download (source code? - the power went out as I was investigating), that I could download at the library. It produces pdf. So does OpenOffice (200MB). TextMaker can import (export?) WORD .doc files and works in 17 languages. Also available for Windows and BSD. The downloadable version is a trial/demo and the cost is $50.

I will report if this is promising.


On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, James Miller wrote:

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:39:21PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:

No, you aren't forced to install Windows. You've got
plenty of other options (DSL, VectorLinux, etc.).

I don't want to learn another linux just to put on other people's
computers. I am trying to share what I already know. BL supports our

Just for the record, Vector, like BL, is based on Slackware. The learning
curve would therefore be alot shallower than
with DSL (which is based on Knoppix/Debian).

James

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